Day: May 21, 2018

Microsoft announced Sunday it acquired conversational AI startup Semantic Machines, a company whose staff includes former Siri chief scientist Larry Gillick and researchers such as Percy Liang, who helped create Google Assistant. Few details were provided in a blog post to announce the acquisition, but today Microsoft AI and Research Group chief technology officer David…

Best Buy’s Gamers Club Unlocked membership program appears to be on the way out the door. The electronics retailer in a leaked internal memo announced it would no longer be accepting new members into the program and sure enough, the landing page for the service no longer offers a way for interested parties to sign…

Epic is readying a new batch of content for Fortnite. Following last week’s patch, the 4.2 content update arrives on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and iOS devices tomorrow, May 22, and it introduces the long-delayed jetpacks into Battle Royale mode. The update is scheduled to roll out early in the morning at 5 AM PT…

Charging your iPhone, iPad, or Mac just got cheaper as Apple cut the price of its 1 meter USB-C to Lightning cable from $25 to $19 at some point in the last month or so. As noted by 9to5Mac earlier today, Apple charged $25 for the 1 meter USB-C to Lightning cable at launch, with…

Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that’s similar to the Meltdown and Spectre flaws that were revealed earlier this year. Labelled Speculative Store Bypass (variant 4), the latest vulnerability is a similar exploit to Spectre and exploits speculative execution that modern CPUs use. Browsers like Safari, Edge, and Chrome were…

Adjusting their GeForce GTX 1050 Family info page over the weekend, NVIDIA quietly announced that the expansion of the GeForce 10-series of cards with another entry: the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. Slotting between the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and original GeForce GTX 1050 (2GB), the GTX 1050 3GB is, despite the name, not actually equal…

Grilling out over the Memorial Day weekend? Bring an umbrella — or a wet suit. You might be lighting the coals in the middle of the first real drencher of the hurricane season. Computer runs are suggesting that bad weather roiling up from the Caribbean Sea will spin its way to the Gulf Coast later…

The 2018 Billboard Music Awards were dominated by first-rate, star-studded performances — perhaps most memorably, the one from BTS. Why such hype? Well, for one, it’s history in the making; they were the first K-pop act to ever perform at the BBMAs. It was also the television debut performance of their new single “Fake Love,” thereby bringing…

The father of the 17-year-old charged with killing 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, said Monday that his son was a “good boy” and had been “mistreated at school.” Antonios Pagourtzis said in a brief phone interview with The Wall Street Journal that his son Dimitrios was bullied and “I believe…

FILE – This Sept. 4, 2017, file photo provided by KATU-TV shows a wildfire as seen from near Stevenson, Wash., across the Columbia River, burning in the Columbia River Gorge above Cascade Locks, Ore. A teenager who started the major wildfire in the scenic Columbia River Gorge in Oregon has been ordered to pay restitution…